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During the COVID‑19 pandemic‑related lockdowns, it wasn’t just the spread of COVID‑19 that was slowed. Other communicable (person‑person, infectious) respiratory infections were also reduced as school children stayed at home, offices closed their doors and face masks became a normal public sight.

Now, with societies opened up again, non‑COVID‑19 respiratory infections (e.g. common colds, influenza, pneumonia) are increasing at a very fast rate.

The rapid rise of these diseases is due to the fact that people were essentially isolated from each other for a couple years, which resulted in lower levels of immunity and higher susceptibility to disease now that we are going back to school, work and social events unmasked.

This rebound in infectious respiratory disease has been so sudden that some parts of the world are even experiencing high rates of influenza, other respiratory infections (e.g. RSV) and COVID‑19, all at the same time.

And these respiratory infections can be just as dangerous and deadly as COVID‑19. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), for example, over 400,000 people are hospitalized every year for complications related to the flu, of which 36,500 die.

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